Adrienne Rich. recently made known...

Adrienne Rich. recently made known York and London: W. W Norton, 1995

In her latest work Adrienne Rich continues her lyric critique of contemporary America as we haplessly march toward the millennium. Hers is a particularly American Iyric project--however international her contacts and global her free course may be. In style and substance these just discovered poems are of a piece with An Atlas of the Difficult World: her language is spare, her diction everyday her lines variable in amplification but rarely effusive. Rich is simultaneously committed to the resources of lyric--its intimacies and nuances, its brevities,